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Reviews Tagged with 1981

Lucio Fulci has definitely created an Italian zombie movie classic with The Beyond. This movie is much more than your traditional slow moving zombie flick and at this moment in time I would rate it as Fulci's best zombie movie.The movie begins in Louisiana, 1927, when a group of vigilantes break into the "seven doors hotel" and drag the occupant of... Click to read more "The Beyond"

Bloody Moon (1981)

Don't Panic... It only happens once in a... Bloody Moon.

Posted on 06 September 2009 by

Pazuzu Iscariot

If you are a fan of unstylish German early-eighties retro slashers (and surely this is a dominant genetic trait nowadays) then you cannot possibly die until you have seen Jesus Franco's "almost" infamous video nasty Bloody Moon (Die Säge des Todes - "The Saw of Death") AKA Profonde Tenebre and The Bloody Moon Murders. For lovers of tasteless disco ... Click to read more "Bloody Moon"

The Burning (1981)

Gather around the campfire to die!

Posted on 19 February 2015 by

Pazuzu Iscariot

The Burning is a slasher movie from 1981 that managed to get itself banished to the video nasty list. It fortified the genre but, unfortunately, didn't have the impact it should have for a number of reasons. It is often compared to Friday the 13th and quite rightly so; a group of hormonally charged teenagers at summer camp get stalked by a disfigur... Click to read more "The Burning"

Dead and Buried (1981)

It will take your breath away... all of it.

Posted on 10 September 2010 by

Pazuzu Iscariot

With a tagline harvested freshly from the mouth of the new recruit in the marketing department claiming the movie is from the creators of Alien, Dead and Buried's only connection with the aforementioned iconic sc-fi horror is that the screenplay was helped along by Dan O'Bannon who had a much bigger input in the outerspace classic than in this. A m... Click to read more "Dead and Buried"

Don't Go in the Woods (1981)

Everyone has nightmares about the ugliest way to die.

Posted on 26 June 2014 by

Pazuzu Iscariot

Don't Go in the Woods is another slasher rescued from wrongful imprisonment in the short-lived purgatory known as the BBFC Video Nasty List. Proof that it was not worthy of the cult status imbued by inclusion on the now infamous list is that when it was finally re-released in 2007 it passed the censors uncut and was rated 15. It is also a contentio... Click to read more "Don't Go in the Woods"

Evil Dead (1981)

Can they be stopped?

Posted on 13 October 2008 by

Pazuzu Iscariot

Sam Raimi's 1981 horror movie Evil Dead manages to contain all of the essential elements from the whole horror genre including excessive gore, the supernatural, undead, dark humour, sex, violence and a chainsaw for bodily dismemberment. Due to these essentials the movie soon found itself on the UK's Video Nasty List as well as being banned in a num... Click to read more "Evil Dead"

The Funhouse (1981)

Pay to get in. PRAY to get out.

Posted on 03 March 2015 by

Pazuzu Iscariot

The Funhouse is the second of Tobe Hooper's films to make it to the UK video nasty list (the first being Eaten Alive - the film about the crocodile, not the Umberto Lenzi one about cannibals). It is unclear why this tale of carnival jollity made it on to a list of notorious horror movies that "tend to deprave or corrupt persons" as it is a slasher ... Click to read more "The Funhouse"

Ms. 45 (1981)

She was abused and violated. It will never happen again!

Posted on 25 January 2014 by

Pazuzu Iscariot

Back in the days when every male in New York was a desperately sex starved Quadrophenia fanboy (a condition exacerbated by fashion designers and hair stylists), Abel Ferrara decided to deliver Ms. 45 to the possibly suspecting public. Despite a slight odour of a feminised Driller Killer, Ms. 45 is exploitation at its finest and Ferrara doing what h... Click to read more "Ms. 45"

Nightmares in a Damaged Brain (1981)

The dream you can't escape ALIVE!

Posted on 07 February 2010 by

Pazuzu Iscariot

Compared to a number of non-shocking movies on the video nasty list Nightmares in a Damaged Brain (also known as just Nightmare and also known as Blood Splash and Schizo) is well deserved of it's designation of nasty. Not only is the movie superbly gory, sleazy and violent it is put together in a way that really messes with the hub of the nervous s... Click to read more "Nightmares in a Damaged Brain"

Possession (1981)

She created a monster as her secret lover!

Posted on 24 April 2013 by

Hellbound Heart

Art house cinema and me, we have an odd relationship. On occasion I can happily see beyond the stylistic tics and spasms which usually free the film of its could-be cogent plot, and I can handle the overblown emotion and the way in which it's examined. And then, perhaps I was expecting too much from Possession, a film which had long been on my hit-... Click to read more "Possession"

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Reviews Tagged with 1981

The Beyond (1981)

Bloody Moon (1981)

The Burning (1981)

Dead and Buried (1981)

Don't Go in the Woods (1981)

Evil Dead (1981)

The Funhouse (1981)

Ms. 45 (1981)

Nightmares in a Damaged Brain (1981)

Possession (1981)